Happy confirmation anniversary, Clarence Thomas!
Do you remember where you were 34 years ago on this beautiful day? Clarence Thomas almost certainly does.
On October 15, 1991, he took the Supreme Court of the United States and began a career based on a catastrophically broken sense of ethics.
Thomas replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning in 29 cases, including one Brown v. School Board. But far from having such rich legal careerThomas served held various state and federal jobs through much of the 1970s and 1980s before serving for about a year on the United States Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C. Circuit. He got the Supreme Court because he was one of the few conservative black judges that President George HW Bush could have appealed to in 1991.
Poppy Bush, never the most eloquent speaker, offered this ringtone approval:
The fact that he is black and a minority has nothing to do with this feeling that he is the most qualified at the moment. I kept my word to the American people and to the Senate by choosing the best man for the job based on merit. And the fact that he is in the minority is so much the better.
From the start, Thomas transformed these sad feels on affirmative action being responsible for his success in a far-right position that no one else should get the benefits that he, Clarence Thomas, got. Yes, because Thomas reportedly felt like his admission to Yale Law School and comfortable legal career were marked with an asterisk, he apparently wanted to make sure no one else could benefit from affirmative action.
Thomas helped curb the terrifying scourge of affirmative action two years ago by joining the majority decision that considering race in college admissions is unconstitutional.
But Thomas also had to deal with the fact that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still existed, just being fair and so on. So it must have been a real pleasure for him to spend the 34th anniversary of his confirmation to the Court laying the groundwork for perhaps, just maybe one day, if the stars align, taking away equal voting rights from racial minorities.
Yes, Thomas spent Wednesday with his fellow conservative judges kick happily on the remains of the VRA. He and his fellow far-right ideologues are now ready to use Louisiana’s racist congressional maps as a springboard for even more racism.
Thomas has been waiting for this for years. He complained about the pernicious effects of blacks having equal voting power from the beginning. in 1994! Thomas must have felt like his wildest dreams came true with Trump, a man who wouldn’t hesitate to bring more outright racists to the field.
Now it looks like Thomas will likely get his wish, and we can all return to real, fundamental American freedom: the Jim Crow era.
One would assume that after Thomas fulfilled his judicial dream of killing the VRA, he would resign. Certainly, there are a number of younger, more vicious jurists that Trump could put on the Supreme Court to lock away additional decades in this area.
But if he resigned, how would he continue to attract all these private jet travel? And a man can’t live alone on a private jet, can he? He also needs dozens of luxury vacationfor free. Oh, and maybe just a tiny campervan, nothing too flashy, mind you. The one who costs $267,000 and comes with a loan that he doesn’t have to repay in full will do just fine. He certainly won’t get these things from wealthy conservative donors hoping to influence the Supreme Court if he no longer serves on it.
A man must have a code, and Clarence Thomas’ code is about what is good for Clarence.
